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MemberOvomorph01/18/2012After extensive browsing through the posts I have not seen anyone address this question. In the photo of Shaw standing in the room with the corridor containing the figures of suited SJ's, speaking from an engineering standpoint, is this after the ship has fallen onto it's side? She's alone, isn't wearing her head gear. From Alien we know this perspective is taken from the Derelict when it's lying in a horizontal position. If it's before the ship topples from it's upright position, the interior of the vessel must be completely laid out differently than the original. More importantly, if all things are maintaining a continuity, this shot would be from near the climax of the film. The derelict has come to rest it it's natural orientation and she's wandered inside. Somehow it's maintaining atmospheric integrity thus allowing her to remove her helmut. I'm sure she's about to have a face to face with something mind boggling therefore the figures behind her were just not that interesting. I have noticed that the piping on the suits changes from blue to red in different shots, for whatever reason. Can't be sure though, for all we know this could be an interior shot of the dig site on Earth. Lots of nasty bacterial organisms can fester in those temple vaults making containment gear potentially neccessary. It would make the idea of those figures being statues less of a conceit on the part of the builders I'll grant. Just anothing thing to think about I suppose.
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Mentos
MemberOvomorph01/18/2012I think the shot you've mentioned takes inside a SJ temple when the Prometheus ship lands on the mystery planet. I think the ship crashing comes much later in the film, probably at the climax. Essentially the ample room isn't part of the SJ ship.
Biomechanic
MemberOvomorph01/18/2012It looks like the ship to me but I think this could be before it crashes.
I am also starting to think the crew's suits are designed to pump some kind liquid through the tubing to regulate body temperature. In Alien the egg chamber was described as like the tropics but the rest of the planet was probably cold. I think when in the cold environment the pump acts as a heater and circulates warm orange liquid that expands the suit and colors the tubing. Maybe the ampule room and parts of the ship are a comfortable temperature so they turn off the pump or it starts circulating a cooler blue liquid.
SubterraneanHomesick
MemberOvomorph01/18/2012I have a quite different (again speculative) opinion: the shot is indeed taken in a chair room inside a derelict, which, after some mechanism is triggered while visiting the temple, has risen from beneath the dusty surface to an upward position - which would explain the sandstorm and the shot of Shaw (?) looking at the risen ship.
We would then realize that the temple was inside the ship just as the cargo bay with the eggs was inside the original derelict in Alien.
I believe that the suits will be used by the humans to try to fly the ship, causing a lot of unforeseeable err... problems.
Note: I believe that the orientation of the room is irrelevant, because the room would have a system to automatically adjust it with the orientation of the ship.
let'sgospacejockin'
MemberOvomorph01/18/2012It's a promo shot people. The two things (Shaw and Corridor) might not have anything to do with each other. It's probably not a real scene. Shaw looks photoshopped into the shot.
serratedproboscis
MemberOvomorph01/18/2012@let'sgo: THANK YOU. So many of these "shots" from the movie look like promo shots. They're way too clean, and the characters make almost ridiculous, 1950's emotional faces.
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